[rsync]

I’ve said this for as long as I’ve been here on hacker news…

I want the terminal to be as dumb as possible.

I don’t want it to have any understanding of what it is displaying or anscribe any meaning or significance to the character characters it is outputting.

The first time apples terminal.app displayed that little lock icon at the ssh password prompt?

The hairs on the back of your neck should have stood up.

[rafram]

What you’re describing would be a completely unusable terminal. You’d lose things as basic as the backspace key. And what’s wrong with Terminal.app indicating when it’s suppressing output?

[rsync]

Terminal.app does not suppress output in my example.

The ssh command switches the terminal into no-echo mode with termios flags.

Terminal.app, being clever, watches for disabled echo (among other things) and assumes a password is being entered and displays the key icon and enables Secure Event Input.

I don't want Terminal.app to be clever.

[rafram]

Why not?

[PunchyHamster]

You're talking nonsense. Backspace worked entirely fine on dumb terminals